Calming, energizing, life-transforming yoga
In yoga, the heart center has its own wisdom, intelligence, and
energy. In this unique and inspiring practice, one of yoga's top
teachers shows you how to connect to the power of your heart-most
potently, your capacity for love and healing.
Shiva offers three ways to experience yoga's rejuvenating
heart-centered focus. Her Prayer Wheel practice generates love
and compassion. Hridaya Naar (Heart Salutation) leads to deep
relaxation and inner peace. The Energizing Heart Movement
Meditation releases stagnant energy and creates natural joy and
vitality.
Starting or ending your day more centered within your heart will
have a profound effect on your body and your life. Choose your
practice - or combine all three - and celebrate the mystery of
being human, fully alive with a radiant heart.
INCLUDES TWO BONUS SEGMENTS: Sample Shiva's other DVDs with
Twisting Kriya (7 min.) from Yoga Trance Dance and Jala Naar
(8 min.) from Fluid Power Yoga.
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The flow (pun intended) of excellent yoga DVDs from Shiva Rea
continues with Radiant Heart. With a total running time of about
30 minutes, this is the shortest of the California-based yogini's
offerings; and with just a single section devoted to asana,
there's no need for the "yoga matrix," a programmable feature
that highlights Rea's other videos (including Yoga Shakti,
inarguably one of the finest yoga DVDs on the market). Still,
that one section, a 20-minute sequence called "Hridaya Naar"
or "Heart Salutation," is, as Shiva Rea fans have come to expect,
innovative and skillfully put together. Focusing less on the
strengthening aspects of yoga than on relaxing, stretching, and
invigorating, it combines a variety of lunges, backbends (ranging
from the relatively elementary sphinx pose to more challenging
positions like cobra, camel, and bow), twists, and more, all
presented with the kind of flowing, undulating movements typical
of Rea's style. The Heart Salutation is bookended by two
meditation sections (the eight-minute "Prayer Wheel" and the
three-minute "Energizing Heart Movement Meditation"), both of
which, as their names imply, involve considerably more activity
than is found in more traditional meditation sequences. Whether
the combination of these elements will in fact promote the
development of "an intelligent heart center which communicates,
alerts, balances, and harmonizes" the body will end up being a
personal matter for each user, but there's no doubting the
quality of both the content and presentation of this inspiring
teacher's work. Bonus features include sample bits from two other
Rea DVDs, Yoga Trance Dance and Fluid Power Yoga. --Sam Graham
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Review
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She has such a calm and mesmerizing voice that guides you into a
state of tranquility. -- Fitsugar, November 16, 2007
"A deeply satisfying practice" -- Yoga + Joyful Living
"Rea creates an invigorating yet deeply internal yoga session" --
VIV Mag
"You can't go wrong." -- Everything Yoga blog
"Impressive to say the least" -- Yoga Journal
"Rea has created a transformative sequence that will be inspiring
to all." -- Yoga Journal
A calming, energizing, life-transforming workout offers a great
introduction to yoga superstar Shiva Rea for all experience
levels. -- H20 Magazine, November/December 2007
The experience is much more spiritual than physical, and by the
end I felt centered, light, and full of love -- Miami Herald,
December 11, 2007
Yoga innovator takes concepts to heart. -- Los Angeles Times
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